davehrab
Responses from davehrab
| How diverse is your musical taste? I like both types of music ... Country and Western (;-) | |
| Fast power cables? Amuseb ... In the mid 90s I had a conversation with a designer/engineer/builder of power conditioners who did not build power cables and had just returned from the CESOur conversation drifted to power cables and he was describing some that he hea... | |
| Periodic replacement of Audio Grade Fuses? Maximum Capacity is a RATING not a Challenge The MOVs that protect our equipment wear out gradually over time and continual use, yet continue to function in their capacity ... why not fuses They are both in the AC protection business and function... | |
| Fuses that matter. In the past in exchange for my own personal insanity I purchased a Mood Ring off Ebay for my wife Gloria Like fuses I was somewhat skeptical the ring would do anything but it really really works When she is in a good mood it glows Emerald Green an... | |
| Shielding components from EMI/RFI... Help please Funny story ... a few weeks back I attempted to leave you this link FERRITES on Ferrites ... thought it might be helpful at that time and I knew you would be very interested The post was very short something like ... Check [this] out ... After a d... | |
| 3 preamps with transformer hum, DC on the line? Yesterday I tried exactly what you stated by ONLY having the preamp plugged in to the dedicated 20 amp AV line with no other AV equipment powered up on the same line and all the other breakers off in the main fuse box. So, power was cut off to eve... | |
| Educate me please Mambir my good old friend .. I miss our thought provoking exchanges from the earlier part of the century ... good to see you active in the forum againI must imagine by now those boys of yours have grown at bit and no longer want to be fire and pol... | |
| Educate me please saki70 ... you must have skipped class the day we discussed the 3 most common failures a CD player can experience The first is Spindle Motor failure ... when the motor gets tired and slows down or stops/expires .. the laser can no longer lock on t... | |
| Room treatment made me cry.......a little........ I dont think there is anything wrong with Grannyring hearing or perception ... the differences he is hearing between the livelier GIK traps and his former Echo Buster and DIY attempts may be that the GIK traps are using a FRK (Kraft Paper facing)... | |
| Possible impedance matching issue with subwoofer? "My preamp has an output impedance of 5k ohms, making for a possible poor match with the sub (20K input Imp.) if I use the 2nd outputs on my pre into the sub's RCA inputs." You can add a SS Buffer ... 1 to 1 gain amp ... to 2nd output on preamp to... | |
| Sub wolfer advice Right next to the XLR outs to the left is the RCA outs you can use to feed Sub ... Unfortunately that Forcefield-4 Sub you are interested in only accepts speaker level ins and outs and has single channel LFE RCA INYou are basically limited to usin... | |
| Sub wolfer advice Heres a different approach you can try ... your Krell KCT has a number of premium low level MAIN outputs you can put to good use You can run a XLR balanced cable from KCT MAIN OUT (#22 in the manual) to the INPUT of 400CX amp ... then run speaker... | |
| Hum X for CJ PV-10? The Hum X can only be used with a maximum of 6 amps output.The 6 amp rating of the Hum X is how much current can be drawn through the HUM X ... not the amount of output of the CJ to the amp The maximum amount of current that will safely pass throu... | |
| Just Turned 50... I am 62 and trust my ears ... what I hear ... before I trust my eyes ... what I read At my last check up my doctor asked me ... Dave at 62 which of your senses do you feel has has diminished the mostI told him my sense of decency | |
| Your Worst WAF Incident I’ll see Your “refrigerator” and raise you a “hot water heater” ... I like you seem to enjoy the benefits of unplugging the refrigerator ... also micro wave and various other appliances with switching power supplies that create DC offset that poll... |